Central Nebraska Today
GRAND ISLAND — A welfare check of a man slumped over in a vehicle in Grand Island during the morning hours of Thursday, April 25 led to an arrest.
At 10:06 a.m., officers with the Grand Island Police Department were called to perform a welfare check on a male who was slumped over in a vehicle near the area of W. Koening St.
Upon contact with the occupant, who officers identified as Merle Galvan, attempted to hide an intravenous drug.
Galvan was detained and a search of his person revealed a glass pipe that is commonly used to ingest methamphetamine and a baggie of a white crystal substance, according to GIPD.
The substance showed a positive result in a methamphetamine presumptive test.
Galvan was arrested for possession of a controlled substance – methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was later booked into the Hall County Department of Corrections.
